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KMID : 0311120110520050739
Yonsei Medical Journal
2011 Volume.52 No. 5 p.739 ~ p.745
The Positive Association between Peripheral Blood Cell Counts and Bone Mineral Density in Postmenopausal Women
Kim Hack-Lyoung

Cho Hwa-Young
Park In-Young
Choi Jin-Man
Kim Min
Jang Ho-Jin
Hwang Se-Min
Abstract
Purpose:Accumulating evidence has shown a close connection between hematopoiesis and bone formation. Our aim was to evaluate the association between peripheral blood cell counts and bone mineral density (BMD) in a sample of postmenopausal women.

Materials and Methods :three hundreds thirty eight healthy postmenopausal women who underwent BMD measurement during their health check-up were investigated. BMD was measured by dual energy X-ray asorptiometry at L1-L4 spine, femoral neck and total proximal femur. BMD was expressed as a T-score: among T-scores obtained from three different sites (L1-L4 spine, femoral neck and total proximal femur), the lowest T-score was considered to be the subject¡¯s T-score.

Results:The prevalence of osteopenia and osteoporosis diagnosed by T-score in the study participants were 49.4% (167/338) and 5.0% (17/338), respectively. Peripheral blood white blood cell (WBC), red blood cell (RBC) and platelet counts had significant positive correlations with T-scores (p<0.001) upon simple linear regression analysis. A multiple linear regression analysis, after controlling of confounders including age, body weight, systolic blood pressure, alkaline phosphatase and creatinine, showed that WBC (¥â=0.127; standard error=0.043; p=0.014), RBC (¥â=0.192; standard error=0.139; p<0.001) and platelet (¥â=0.097; standard error=0.001; p=0.050) counts still had significant positive association with T-scores.

Conclusion:The study results showed a positive relationship between blood cell counts and bone mineral density in postmenopausal women, supporting the idea of a close connection between hematopoiesis and bone formation. The study results also suggest that blood cell counts could be a putative marker for estimating BMD in postmenopausal women.
KEYWORD
Association, blood cells, bone density, postmenopause
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